Imagine attempting to write a nuanced, emotionally rich story about a protagonist who kills, like, several hundred people over the course of his or her hero’s journey. That gives you an idea of how hard it is to write for the first-person shooter genre of video games.

For teams with long and storied histories, the hype video can connect current circumstances with the golden glories of the past. For teams transitioning between eras, it can restate an overarching culture. And for others, it can be used as an excuse to be super-weird.

In recent years, TV has become a safer space for the cerebral stories Asimov liked to tell. Even the ‘Foundation’ trilogy’s time-jumps and protagonist swaps seem like less of an obstacle in the age of ‘True Detective.’

It is the year 2014, and starting this weekend, Jeff Daniels will deliver one of the most delightful and satisfying cultural ironies in the history of American popular entertainment: He’ll star in ‘The Newsroom’ and ‘Dumb and Dumber To’ at the same time.

Continuing his annual tradition, Ben Lindbergh has scoured the Internet for predictions that players or executives made about their teams before Opening Day 2014. While it’s always entertaining to revisit predictions, there are plenty of reasons for team personnel to exaggerate, ranging from raising trade value to inflating fan interest to instilling clubhouse confidence, so we shouldn’t assume that all of these statements reflect the speakers’ actual beliefs. Still, it’s useful to keep these pronouncements in mind when deciding how much stock to put in similar statements this coming spring.